Sonderbooks #40: Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund

Sonderbooks #40

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October 29, 2002

Nonfiction

**The Tending Instinct, by Shelley E. Taylor

Fiction

*Morgawr: The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 3, by Terry Brooks

Young Adult Fiction

*****This Star Shall Abide, by Sylvia Engdahl

***Surviving the Applewhites, by Stephanie S. Tolan

Children's Nonfiction

***Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood, by Veronica Chambers
***Look! Zoom in on Art, by Gillian Wolfe

Children's Fiction

***The Same Stuff as Stars, by Katherine Paterson
**Don’t You Know There’s a War On? by Avi

**7 x 9 = Trouble, by Claudia Mills

Old Favorite

(Nonfiction): ****Wisdom To Live By, by George MacDonald

Picture Book Pick

****Hungry Hen, by Richard Waring, illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church

Quotation of the Week

"The Lord knows what men need; they know only what they want.
They want happiness without the cost. They want ease.
He knows they need purity.”
–George MacDonald, Wisdom To Live By

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